{"id":351,"date":"2007-08-05T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T22:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/05\/efficiency-tip-101-the-list\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:26","slug":"efficiency-tip-101-the-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/05\/efficiency-tip-101-the-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #102 &#8211; The List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/178\/399875164_2f9b2268da_m.jpg\" height=\"180\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" \/>I had to rebuild one of my computers this weekend.\u00a0 I do this from time to time.\u00a0 Windows has an <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entropy\">entropy<\/a> problem and\u00a0the OS\u00a0seems to run best when freshly installed.<\/p>\n<p>Since I like my computer setup in a particular way, certain applications must be installed on a new computer.\u00a0 I keep a list of all my critical applications.\u00a0 In addition to the\u00a0typical programs\u00a0like Word, Excel and\u00a0PowerPoint, my list includes a lot of little things like my batch programs and all the command line utilities that I use.\u00a0 Most of what I install is free: WS_FTP, RSS Reader, 7-Zip, Eudora, Firefox, etc.\u00a0 The list assures I don&#8217;t leave anything off.<\/p>\n<p>In case my computer crashes, I keep my list on the server.\u00a0 I have found that I do re-installs enough that I also store most of the programs\u00a0from the list on the server.\u00a0 In fact, the\u00a0program directory itself is as good as the list.\u00a0 I start installing from the top of the directory and work my way down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to rebuild one of my computers this weekend.\u00a0 I do this from time to time.\u00a0 Windows has an entropy problem and\u00a0the OS\u00a0seems to run best when freshly installed. Since I like my computer setup in a particular way, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/08\/05\/efficiency-tip-101-the-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}